Ken Aptekar toys with paintings from the past by using the history of art as his playground. He time-travels beloved masterpieces into the present by his sly repainting joined to his own witty and intimate texts. Here’s the idea: Paintings are nothing on their own, they start meaning something only when you start talking back to them. Aptekar's work turns this conviction into paintings on wood panels over which he bolts glass sandblasted with text.

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Recently on view:

Ken Aptekar: Recent Portraits

March 11-April 17, 2010

James Graham & Sons Gallery, 32 E 67th St. between Park & Madison Ave., New York, NY

in San Francisco at the Contemporary Jewish Museum
TEXTING THE TORAH, artists' responses to specific passages in the Book of Genesis
October 8, 2009 - March, 2010

in Wellington, New Zealand at the Museum of New Zealand
Moving Towards a Balanced Earth: Kick the Carbon Habit!

June 5, 2008 - November 16, 2008 Catalogue available online: CLICK to read